Donald Trump revives Canada’s Liberals in electoral turnaround

Chrystia Freeland © Galit Rodan/BloombergMark Carney © Artur Widak/Anadolu/Getty Images

In a televised debate on Tuesday evening, Freeland said Trump posed “the gravest challenge our country has face since the second world war”.

 “Trump is unleashed and empowered. As your prime minister, I will be too,” she said.

Carney, who stressed he was “not a politician” in an effort to distance himself from the record of the Trudeau government, told viewers that “in a situation like this you need experience in terms of crisis management, you need negotiating skills, but you also need economic expertise”. 

Nanos Research surveys carried out between January 31 and February 3 found that just under 40 per cent of Canadians considered Carney the best qualified leader to negotiate with Trump while only 26 per cent of those asked thought Poilievre was best suited; 13 per cent chose Freeland.

A separate poll by Leger released earlier this month found that 68 per cent of Liberal voters supported Carney.

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The Liberal leadership vote will take place on March 9 and a general election must be held by October, although Tuesday’s Ipsos poll found that 86 per cent of respondents wanted an election to be held as soon as possible so the new prime minister had a strong mandate to counter Trump. 

“Whether this momentum will stick around remains to be seen, but for now, the Liberals are riding high,” said Semra Sevi, a political-science professor at the University of Toronto.

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